Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he was not sure whether he would enter. Meanwhile Borah supporters, including many Johnson men, applied for the necessary papers, circulated nominating petitions, set to work on a slate of delegates. Not until the last day did Senator Borah decide. That he could not spare two weeks to stump California was the reason he gave for not filing. Perhaps a shortage of campaign money helped him make up his mind, and he may have listened to advisers who told him that if he entered in California he might only split the anti-Hoover vote and run last...
...sort or another where unconcerned spectators are present merely "to see the fun". At other times meetings have degenerated into riots. Affirmatively regarded, an indoor meeting is more suitable, for peace, unfortunately, is not an essentially emotional subject, and its "message" cannot be most effectively delivered by a hoarse stump-speaker. Its appeal, devoid of such window-dressing as bands and flags, must be primarily made to reason...
Before next fall legislators' records will be gone over with a fine tooth comb, their stand on the stump will be carefully questioned and clucidated. The autumn elections will have a real story to tell. Legislative berths are regarded as warm and comfortable ones by other people besides the present occupants, and applicants with sane ideas about education are going to win great support...
...Government Printing Office, distributed among newspaper men for future release. Last week Senator Byrnes charged that the printed record contained General Hagood's testimony but not the questions put to him by members of the subcommittee. Thus the impression was given that General Hagood made a stump speech, volunteered nearly everything, whereas the Committee had, as a matter of fact, led him on to express his opinion in full. Two days later the Press published the testimony and General Hagood's "stage money" made headlines. The General sent another telegram to several members of Congress: "I am deeply...
...Billy the Kid and the other old-time desperadoes. The Duke imposes a reign on terror on the little roadhouse, and precipitates all sorts of emotional shifts, strains, and crises. Leslie decides that he admires the adamantine killer as the last of the rugged individualists and a kindred petrified stump; also he decides that he loves Miss Davis...